As I predicted on twitter, old white guys gave it to him as a lifetime achievement award, for being on a good team loaded with talent. Clarkston's record is crazy over the last two years.

The guys who vote on this don't know of any better way to decide a close race. But Loyer will be the worst of the four in college, and wasn't the best in high school. I thought it was Dejulius, who destroyed Loyer head-to-head.

Maybe this was in the works for a while. But you can imagine this being something their triage team looked at as helpful for his image. If that's the case - and if their overall response to everything is any indication I'd suggest this is probable -, the fact that they are spending any time at all on this is troublesome. All energy needs to be on understanding what he might have overlooked. Like his assistant punching a girl in the face and then sleeping in his basement, and then claiming he didn't know why said assistant left the program.

So JBB is in the equation? A returning starter at tackle on a team that has no offensive tackles? I'll just re-post this comment I made in the Calvin Anderson post 5 days ago, where everyone mentioned every OL on the team except JBB...

"Juwan Bushell-Beatty? I know we've heard some things from UMBIG11 about him being gone or on the verge of it, but I believe I've seen him in at least one of the off-season workout videos being published. And Mason Cole mentioned him in an interview just a few days ago.

He was the starter last year. Yes a turnstile often in pass pro, but a bruiser in the run game. Very unlikely that he gets much better at pass pro, but it's crazy to me that again he's being completely dismissed. He is a returning starter at tackle and this team needs tackles, ergo he's in the mix.

It's always possible that some level of his pass pro problems were caused by lack of commitment, and he could change that in one off-season (I have no idea, just posing a hypothetical). And Warinner could work his magic. If he went from terrible at pass pro to below average, that would significantly raise the floor on this team. Because he's a plus blocker on the ground and he and Onwenu together is something defenses have to think about planning around.

Yes I hope Steuber or Honigford or Filaga or Ulizio are awesome. But JBB is in this equation."

This is my thought, based on too little info. Spanellis practiced well enough to get on the field, and have the coaches talk glowingly about him. He's rumored to be one of the smartest guys on the team. And he played well in that very small sample size. Doesn't appear to be a tackle though, and probably won't be as pulverizing at guard as Onwenu and Ruiz. He gets the start at center, as crazy as that sounds. Because now you've got nowhere for Bredeson, who's played a lot of football. I think Onwenu and Ruiz are better guards.

Would be great if Bredeson could play tackle, but he doesn't look to be great at pass pro.

Juwan Bushell-Beatty? I know we've heard some things from UMBIG11 about him being gone or on the verge of it, but I believe I've seen him in at least one of the off-season workout videos being published. And Mason Cole mentioned him in an interview just a few days ago.

He was the starter last year. Yes a turnstile often in pass pro, but a bruiser in the run game. Very unlikely that he gets much better at pass pro, but it's crazy to me that again he's being completely dismissed. He is a returning starter at tackle and this team needs tackles, ergo he's in the mix.

It's always possible that some level of his pass pro problems were caused by lack of commitment, and he could change that in one off-season (I have no idea, just posing a hypothetical). And Warinner could work his magic. If he went from terrible at pass pro to below average, that would significantly raise the floor on this team. Because he's a plus blocker on the ground and he and Onwenu together is something defenses have to think about planning around.

Yes I hope Steuber or Honigford or Filaga or Ulizio are awesome. But JBB is in this equation.

Easy to lol at this, especially around here with Brandon. But this company is dead and has no future, therefore the execs have no future there. They do have options, however, so in order to incentivize them to stay, bonuses are sometimes needed. Everyone walking away would make an even bigger mess of things.

It's worse when the execs drive the business into the ground. Not really true here, they were attempting to revive it.

And that's the difference. You and me most of the board won't be harmed by a false perception that white guys can't run. We laugh it off, we don't care because it doesn't hurt us. A prevailing perception that african americans don't speak well has to be combated b/c it can materially affect lives - lost opportunities at school, work, etc.

Is it a bit unfair to call out one and not the other? In a vacuum, maybe. But we're walking around in a world where most of the people look like us, and don't have a history of harming us. If you step into the other shoes it's pretty easy to be OK with laughing one off and not the other.

Thumbs up to espn for overlaying pictures of the prostitute parties over the audio of this press conference last night.

Thumbs down for the basketball analysts, who almost to a man were denigrating the NCAA for taking down the banners. Yes the games were played, but the simple truth of UL having players on the team who may not have been there buy for raging hooker parties, seems to allude them.

Can someone take the Lloyd Carr "You just won the national championship" vid, make it a gif, and replace his face with Beilein? Put Trey Burke/Hardaway/Stauskas/Morgan/et al on the faces of players when they cheer. Have a cardinal in a trash can.

Why don't you text one of your company's VP's who went to Louisville, and ask him about our new WR coach?

"McElwain's first coaching job in Division I-A football was at University of Louisville where he was the receivers and special teams coach from 2000 to 2002. At Louisville, he tutored All-Conference USA receivers Arnold Jackson, Deion Branch, Damien Dorsey and Zek Parker. Also his special teams set a school record of nine blocked kicks in 2000–2001 season."

Seems odd to ask someone about our new Offensive Coordinator, when that someone knows him as a head coach, and he's actually coming in as a WR coach.

Did people think the officiating was that bad? Big miss on the Poole drive, late in the game Wagner basically shoved a guy out of bounds and didn't get called. They had two guys foul out. Seemed like they let them play.

Detroit News and Free Press have a vested interest in Izzo and Dantonio. They look pitiful if a national reporter can come in, do a story on a completely unrelated topic, and find suspect behavior in Izzo and Dantonio. Neither of those papers have sniffed a thing. They want to be able to say that's because they're clean.

They already look foolish for being nowhere when the largest case of sexual assualt in American history occurred right under their noses.

Early 4th quarter I seem to remember McKeon dropped a good pass that would have meant a 17-20 yard gain, good throw by O'Korn. Would have had M just past mid-field down 28-13. Still getting killed, but score there and it's maybe not a massacre. After that drop, O'Korn was sacked/fumbled on the next down. PSU immediately went to the McCray-covers-Barkley long TD and the rout was on.

We weren't winning that game. But if McKeon catches that ball, the passing maybe makes more sense.

When the ship's going down, none of us look particularly bright or inspired. As I said, it's on him - fair to judge him on that. But a lot of people fail: Saban looked really bad at Miami in his exit (the guy chose Culpepper over Drew Brees for cripe's sake), as an example.